The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes as hostilities between the two sides entered their seventh day, with both countries claiming attacks on military and strategic targets.
The US said it had targeted Iranian surveillance centres, military logistics facilities, underground weapons storage sites and maritime capabilities in its latest wave of strikes.
In a post on X, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the operation began around midnight on Friday and was aimed at degrading Iran’s military capabilities. In a statement issued around 6:00am, CENTCOM said the operation had been completed.
The command said US forces used fighter jets, drones and warships during the strikes and added that it was enforcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted US military bases, radar systems and ammunition depots in Kuwait and Jordan.
The IRGC claimed its attacks destroyed a US troop deployment site at Camp Arifjan and a radar system at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. It warned countries hosting US forces to prepare for possible retaliatory responses.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, citing military sources, reported that Iranian drones targeted US ammunition depots, command facilities and communication infrastructure in Kuwait, as well as fuel depots at Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan.
The IRGC also warned that if the US targeted Iranian infrastructure, including bridges, transport networks, industrial facilities, information technology firms and artificial intelligence companies in the region, such sites could become targets of Iranian attacks.
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